Archive for December, 2007

One of the notable aspects of Saturday night’s UFC 79 event in Las Vegas was that the fact that the promotion did not push Xyience hard. Instead of having the typical Xyience logos on the Octagon mat canvas, they had huge logos for Harley Davidson and Lumber Liquidators (a company that recently went public on […]

TV: Tokyo Broadcasting System (6 PM-11:35 PM JST) Fight card here All recaps, links, thoughts, and PBP goes here. We definitely are encouraging PBP in the comments section. If there are any videos available on YouTube (YouTube.com or jp.youtube.com), Nicovideo, Daily Motion, etc. feel free to post links. Notes on the show can be found […]

We have a boxing page on our site that is automatically updated with the latest news, but I do apologize for not talking more about boxing on the main page here at Fight Opinion. With that said, this is a story I can’t pass up. Roy Jones Jr., who loves cockfighting, apparently loves dogfighting as […]

Tokyo Sports mobile (the newspaper) conducted an interview with Dana White on a number of subjects. The focus was on Takanori Gomi and Mirko Cro Cop. According to the newspaper’s interview, White said that Mirko Cro Cop asked for permission to attend the Hustle event on 12/31 in Saitama and that his request was granted. […]

In a thinly-veiled attack on UFC (and WEC), Saturday night’s NFL Network broadcast (simulcasted on NBC and CBS) of the New York Giants vs. New England Patriots featured a TV ad spot for “I want NFL Network.” The ad features actors mocking cable companies that claim people don’t want to pay for the NFL Network, […]

All thoughts about the show (event recaps, results, liveblogging of the show) will go here in this post. Kevin Iole reports that Liddell will make $500,000 USD for his fight at UFC 79, while his opponent Wanderlei Silva will make $150,000 USD. CompuStrike.com is doing live stats of tonight’s UFC 79 event in Las Vegas. […]

Check out Mike Coughlin’s new edition of Five Star Radio here. Oliver Copp and Mike Sawyer of Tough Talk Radio went to the IFO show on Friday at the Riviera in Las Vegas. They have a recap of the event in audio form (listen to the show here). Jarry Park has an interview with Damon […]

If anyone is going to be able to record the TV-Tokyo feed of the Hustle show, the Tokyo Broadcasting System feed of the K-1 Dynamite show, or the SkyPerfecTV PPV feed of the DSE show in Saitama, please get a hold of me using the contact form. Thanks. Here is an excerpt from Matt Hughes’ […]